I Can Read Quotes

• It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wisdom, Book, Reading

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• The more you read, the more things you will know.

  Dr. Seuss

  Educational, Reading, Places To Go

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• If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Oscar Wilde (1950). “Essays”, Ayer Company Pub

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• The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

  "Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!". Book by Dr. Seuss, August 21, 1975.

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• Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

  Harold Bloom

  Reading, Solitude, Pleasure

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• If you think you can't, you're right.

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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• A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.

  Edward P. Morgan

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  Edward P. Morgan (1963). “Clearing the air”, Washington, D.C.

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• One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish!

  Dr. Seuss

  Blue, Two, Red

  Dr. Seuss (2017). “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish”, HarperCollins UK

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• The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.154, StoneHenge Classics

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• I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.

  Dr. Seuss

  Reading, Blue, Color

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• There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Life, Attitude, Fall

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• I don't pretend that I can read minds. I don't believe anybody can read minds. In other words, I don't believe in psychics.

  Keith Barry

  Believe, Psychics, Mind

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• You may consider me presumptuous, gentlemen, but I claim to be a citizen of the United States, with all the qualifications of a voter. I can read the Constitution, I am possessed of two hundred and fifty dollars, and the last time I looked in the old family Bible I found I was over twenty-one years of age.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Years, Two, Gentleman

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Susan Brownell Anthony (1872). “Memorial of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Elizabeth L. Bladen, Olympia Brown, Susan B. Anthony, and Josephine L. Griffing, to the Congress of the United States, and the Arguments Thereon Before the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. Senate”, p.19

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• I must say, some are not very beautifully made. They’re coffee-table books for people who drink alcohol. I have nothing against coffee-table books as long as they are well done. They must not look like gravestones on a table. Sometimes they are too big, they come in boxes and things like this. No, a book has to be easy to open and you don’t have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Tombstone, Book, Coffee

  "Media People: Q&A With Karl Lagerfeld". Interview with Miles Socha, wwd.com. September 12, 2014.

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• Believing there's no God stops me from being solipsistic. I can read ideas from all different people from all different cultures. Without God, we can agree on reality, and I can keep learning where I'm wrong. We can all keep adjusting, so we can really communicate.

  Penn Jillette

  Believe, Reality, Ideas

  "There Is No God". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. November 21, 2005.

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• I wanted to be a musician. I just wanted to be famous because I wanted to escape from what I felt was my limitation in life... And I wanted to write music, and I didn’t know what I was doing and I never had the technique or understanding of it... But I’ve always played the piano and I can improvise on the piano, but the problem is that I can’t write down what I write. I can read music but I can’t write numbers.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Writing, Play, Piano

  "Interview: Anthony Hopkins (The World’s Fastest Indian)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. January 31, 2006.

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• Writing that gets rewritten as the earth moves. If you look at the sky that way, it's this massive shifting poem, or maybe a letter, first written by one author, and then, when the earth moves, annotated by another. So I stare and stare until, one day, I can read it.

  Maria Dahvana Headley

  Moving, Writing, Sky

  Maria Dahvana Headley (2015). “Magonia”, p.15, HarperCollins

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• I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me, thank God that I can read, that I have truly touched the minds of other men.

  Walter Tevis

  Strong, Book, Men

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• I can read books and news articles about people who have excelled, people who have done extremely well in their chosen field, or made a lot of money, or married well, or what have you. When some people read this stuff, they get inspired, but when I read it, it makes me feel worse. Sometimes I wish I had never learned to read.

  John S. Hall

  Book, People, Wish

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the smart book three years after everyone else has finished.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Smart, Book, Reading

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• Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.

  Charles Lamb

  Book, Thinking, I Can

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• I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience had not taught me that by this he thinks, Thought then, is the essence of man, and without this we cannot conceive of him.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Thinking, Hands

  Blaise Pascal (1825). “Thoughts on Religion, and Other Subjects”, p.5

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• With God's help, I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there. And because of that, I'm doing this. I'm making records, I'm touring. I was so involved in just getting brain damaged, I wasn't doing anything. I had great ideas, many notebooks filled with notes, some of them I can read and some of them I just can't read, but I really didn't do anything constructive, it was all just good ideas. Now I'm trying to lead a constructive life a day at a time.

  Ringo Starr

  Notebook, Years, Ideas

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people in Detroit have to say about Detroit. My best education is actually talking to people.

  Erin Cummings

  Book, Cities, Talking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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